{"id":26010,"date":"2020-08-03T18:40:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=26010"},"modified":"2020-08-03T18:40:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:40:22","slug":"a-blast-from-the-past-i-was-taught-to-kill-destroy-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/a-blast-from-the-past-i-was-taught-to-kill-destroy-ed","title":{"rendered":"A Blast From The Past: I was Taught To Kill, Destroy \u2013 ED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Close to a decade ago, President Mnangagwa, while he was still the minister of defence, said before he turned to Jesus he was a trained killer. Newsday reports<\/p>\n<p>Mnangagwa said this while addressing mourners at his brother\u2019s funeral in Kwekwe:<\/p>\n<p>For those of us comrades who were taught to destroy and kill and have seen the light in the last days of our lives, and will die in Christ, our rewards are in heaven. I am a gentleman and have found favour in the eyes of God because I have accepted Him with all my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Mnangagwa who is called Ngwena(crocodile) has been fingered in the 1980s killings of Matabeleland people in a genocide known as Gukurahundi and he has over the last few years presided over a government that thwarts opposition protests with an iron fist despite describing himself as soft as wool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Close to a decade ago, President Mnangagwa, while he was still the minister of defence, said before he turned to Jesus he was a trained killer. Newsday reports Mnangagwa said this while addressing mourners at his brother\u2019s funeral in Kwekwe: For those of us comrades who were taught to destroy and kill and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[34,605],"class_list":{"0":"post-26010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-emmerson-mnangagwa","10":"tag-kwekwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Blast From The Past: I was Taught To Kill, Destroy \u2013 ED - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Close to a decade ago, President Mnangagwa, while he was still the minister of defence, said before he turned to Jesus he was a trained\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/a-blast-from-the-past-i-was-taught-to-kill-destroy-ed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Blast From The Past: I was Taught To Kill, Destroy \u2013 ED\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Close to a decade ago, President Mnangagwa, while he was still the minister of defence, said before he turned to Jesus he was a trained\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/a-blast-from-the-past-i-was-taught-to-kill-destroy-ed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-03T16:40:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/president-mnangagwa..jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"680\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"380\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/a-blast-from-the-past-i-was-taught-to-kill-destroy-ed\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/a-blast-from-the-past-i-was-taught-to-kill-destroy-ed\",\"name\":\"A Blast From The Past: I was Taught To Kill, Destroy \u2013 ED - 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